Light Programme, Drama, 1960
Drama on the BBC Light Programme in 1960
(The Light Programme ran from 1945 to 1967)
The list below is somewhat loosely chosen to try to avoid series more in the sit-com line..
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3rd January 1960
16.30-17.00
Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case by Francis Durbridge.
Part 7 of 8.
Part 1 broadcast 22nd November 1959 (which please refer to).
Producer: Martyn C Webster
Paul Temple: Peter Coke
Steve: Marjorie Westbury.
Part 8: 10th January 1960.
5th January 1960
21.00-21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Death In A Crystal by Josephine Bell (Doris Bell Collier 1897-1987)
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
Mrs Merryweather: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Miss Cardew: Sylvia Coleridge
Rogers: Norman Claridge
Nurse Simpson: Eva Stuart
Ellen Rogers: Sheila Grant
Brown: Keith Williams
Dr Hughes: Charles Simon
Superintendent Mitchell: George Hagan
Constable: Rolf Lefebvre
Dr Wintringham: James Thomason
[Josephine Bell was a Doctor of Medicine. The character of Dr Wintringham appeared in 18 stories. This was his only radio outing.].
6th January 1960
20.00-20.30
Gunsmoke by John Meston (1914-1979)
Edited by Charles Chilton
Part 15 of 21. Traitor Scout
Producer Norman Macdonnell
Matt Dillon: William Conrad
Chester Proudfoot: Parley Baer
Kitty: Georgia Ellis
Doc: Howard McNear
Weekly for 21 weeks, first story 30th September 1959, last story 17th February 1960. All 21 episodes were written by John Meston.
[In total John Meston wrote 183 episodes from a total of 413 radio shows, and 196 episodes of the 635 tv shows. The story started on CBS Radio (USA) from 1952. Meston's final story aired in 1965.
12th January 1960
21.00-21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Coach To London by Guy Cullingford (Constance Lindsay Taylor 1907-2000)
Produced by Cedric Messina
Tom Gilpin: Trevor Martin
Miss Boone: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Coach driver: Jon Rollason
Baby's mother: Sheila Grant
Baby's father: Gabriel Woolf
Police sergeant: John Hussey
Also with: Rolf Lefebvre, John Humphry, Douglas Storm, Henry Davies, June Tobin, Cecile Chevreau, Hilda Schroder, and Janet Burnell
17th January 1960
16.30-17.00
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan adapted by J C Gosforth.
1 of 6. The Man Who Died.
Producer Frederisk Bradnum
Richard Hannay: James McKechnie
Franklin P Scudder: Alfred Hoffman
Edward Leithen: Norman Claridge
Peter Pienaar: George Hagan
Paddock, a manservant: John Scott
A student: Hugh Dickson
Also with Eric Anderson, Philip Cunningham, Willoughby Gray, Duncan McIntyre and George Merritt
Additional cast in episodes 3-6:
Andrew Faulds, Gabriel Woolf, Jack Shaw, Wilfrid Grantham
Episode 6 broadcast 21st February 1960
Series repeated on BBC Home from 22nd July 1960.
[James McKechnie produced a 1939 radio version of this play, also in 6 parts]
[Other productions: year/producer/actor playing Hannay:
1950 (Home) (6 parts)/ Donald McLean/ Derek Walker
1992 (R4)/ Patrick Rayner/David Rintoul
1999 (R4)/ Clive Brill/ Alan Cox
2001 (R4) rptd R7 2009 (2 parts)/Bruce Young/David Robb]
18th January 1960
20.30-21.00
Emergency, Flight 943 by Bob Kesten
Producer Alan Burgess
16th October 1956, the Pacific.
Patricia Reynolds: Barbara Kelly
Captain Ogg: Bud Knapp
Lee Haaker: Charles Richardson
Earle: Stuart Nichol
Mrs Dami: Judy Bailey
Mrs Dix: Natalie Lynn
Katharine Araski: Corinne Langston
Dr Touze: Bernard Rebel
Ken Strickler: Bob Kesten
Frank Garcia: Warren Stanhope
Dick Brown: Marvin Kane
Richard Gordon: Gordon Sterne
Repeated BBC Home, 7th September 1960 in "Children's Hour".
[The airliner was N90943 and its landing was filmed as it happened]
19th January 1960
21.00-21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Bishop's Teeth by Charles Franklin (Frank Hugh Usher, 1909-1976).
Producer: Frederick Bradnum
John Andrews: Godfrey Kenton
Pamela Ford: Tobi Weinberg
Margaret Andrews: Joan Matheson
Audrey Norman: Peggy Gow
James Norman/ Barman: Humphrey Morton
Hotel Guest/Commissaire Marchalf: Garard Green
Repeated Home 6th April 1960
26th January 1960
21.00-21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Dim Out and Curtain by Eric Allen.(Eric Allen-Ballard 1908-1968)
Producer: Audrey Cameron.
Detective-Inspector Strickland: Geoffrey Lewis
D-I Joseph Garrity: Noel Johnson
Webber: David March
Harry: Frank Partington
Assistant Commissioner: Norman Claridge
Kit Bergson: Mary Wimbush
2nd February 1960
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Truthful Witness by Elizabeth Ferrars (Morna Doris MacTaggart, 1907-1995)
Produced by William Glen-Doepel
Meg: Denise Bryer
Jim Ellis: Peter Howell
Mrs Nettle: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Marion Ellis: Mary Wimbush
Inspector Davis: John Glen
[Original story published 1958 in "Choice of Weapons". Although Ferrars was a prolific writer this is the only radio play based upon her work.]
9th February 1960
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Man Who Changed His Name by Julian Symons (1912-1994)
Producer: H B Fortuin
Alonzo Jones: Hugh Manning
Max Wormald: Anthony Jacobs
Watson: Tom Watson
Pooh Bear: John Bryning
Eeyore: Robert Grant
Tigger: John Sharp
Miss Carruthers: Freda Dowie
Waitress: Cecile Chevreau
[There is no other record of this work by Symons. An apparently very different work with this title is credited to fellow crime writer Edgar Wallace, and there was even an adverse copyright claim over it, but not by Symons.]
[Julian Symons is credited with "The Man Who lost his wife" and "the Man who killed himself" and "The man who hated television". Several records indicate those are the only three "The Man who" stories he wrote. This play is a bit of a mystery. Edgar Wallace is also credited with "The Man who bought London" and "The Man who knew nobody".]
[Note that Miss Carruthers is from Christie's "Miss Marple", Watson you know- and Eeeyore and friends by Milne- who was a member of the crime writers cricle ("The Red Barn Mystery") ]
15th February 1960
20.30-21.00
Submarine Attack by James Borthwick.
Producer: Alan Burgess
Lt -Cmdr Fraser: Frank Duncan
Magennis: Harry Towb
Kiwi: Bruce Wightman
Reid: David Spenser
Commander of H M S Stygian: Leigh Crutchley
16th February 1960
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Dead Certainty by Cyril Wentzel (1909-1986)
Production by Martyn C. Webster
Myra: Janet Burnell
Hancock: Jon Rollason
Barmaid: Jean England
Hazel: Sheila Grant
Walmer: Ian Sadler
Repeated on BBC Home on 24th February 1960
23rd February 1960:
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Stockbroker's Clerk (1893) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930, dramatised by Michael Hardwick
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Pycroft: Desmond Carrington
Landlady: Kathleen Helme
Pinner: Hugh Manning
Repeated on BBC Home 2nd March 1960
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2021]
[Also produced for R4 by Enyd Williams in 1992, rptd 1993, with Clive Merrison as Holmes, repeated on R7 and R4X 2008-2013]]
28th February 1960
16.30-17.00
Dr. Bradley Remembers (1938) by Francis Brett Young (1884-1954) adapted by Lionel Brown.
Piano: Arthur Dulay
1 of 9.
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Dr Harwood: Jon Rollason
Emma: Marjorie Westbury
Dr Bradley: Trevor Martin
Lijah Hodgetts: George Merritt
Dr Mortimore: Basil Jones
Walter Delahay: Jack May
Lavinia Bradley: Annabel Maule
Additional cast in parts 2-9:
Kenneth Dight, Brian Smith, Charles Simon, Doris Gilmore, Elizabeth London, George Hagan, Hugh Dickson, Hugh Manning, John Hollis, John Saunders, Judy Bailey, Judy Horn, June Tobin, Norman Claridge, Norman Shelley, Preston Lockwood, Robert Mooney, Rolf Lefebvre, Sheila Grant, Tom Fleming, Tom Watson, Wilfrid Grantham
Part 9 broadcast on 24th April 1960
Series repeated on the BBC Home Service commencing 8th July 1960
[The author's parents were medical people and he trained as a doctor. The book is over 700 pages long. Similar to but earlier than the first "Richard Gordon" Doctor books.]
1st March 1960
22.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Visiting Airman by Dudley Barker
A U.S. airman crash-lands on the village green of Lesser Bolting.
Produced By: Charles Lefeaux
Air Commodore Strong Ret'd: David Bird
The Rev Whitebait: John Hollis
Charlie Rainbird: Keith Williams
Al Dakerman, USAF: Jerry Stovin
Bill Croop a young farmer: John Humphry
Milly Rainbird: Hilda Schroder
Miss Lorimer: Mary O'Farrell
Col Julius Strindberg, USAF: Alan Tilvern
An American correspondent: Jane Jordan Rogers
Danny, USAF: Michael Turner
Shorty, USAF: Malcolm Hayes
Maisie Green: Jacqueline Forster
Hilda Stanch: Kathleen Helme,
A Bishop, visiting Lesser Bolting: George Hagan
Repeated on BBC Home on 12th March 1960.
8th March 1960
19.30-20.00
The Flying Doctor: A weekly series by Rex Rienits.
1: The New Girl
Producer: Vernon Harris
Dr Chris Rogers: James McKechnie
Tommy O'Donnell: Bill Kerr
Mary West: Rosemary Miller
Sally MacAndrew: Bettina Dickson
Charlie Woods: David Williams
Wally Buckman: John Stacy
Episode 27 of the 1960 series was broadcast 6th September 1960.
The 1960 series stories were repeated five days later, also on BBC Light.
A long running program over several series 1958-1963. Many episodes were also broadcast on BBC Home. No further entries appear below.
15th March 1960
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Lady In Seat 5a by Philip Levene (1926-1973) and George Gracie
Produced By: Cedric Messina
Katie Donovan: Hilda Schroder
Jeff Howard: John Humphry
Tony Duncan: Jeremy Burnham
Ted Smith: Gabriel Woolf
Miss Cousins: Nan Munro
Dr Judd: John Bennett
Colonel Mayer: Rolf Lefebvre
Gloria Came: Sheila Grant
22nd March 1960
22.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Naval Treaty (1893) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) dramatised by Michael Hardwick
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Joseph Harrison: Robert Corder
Percy Phelps: Hamilton Dyce
Lord Holdhurst: George Hagan
Tangey: Charles Simon
Ada Tangey: Freda Dowie
Detective Forbes: Kenneth Dight
Mrs Tangey: June Tobin
Annie Harrison: Cecile Chevreau
Mrs Hudson: Kathleen Helme
Repeated BBC Home 17th August 1960, and rptd R4X 2018-2021
[Other productions: year/channel/producer/actor playing Holmes:
1952/Home/David Davis/Carleton Hobbs
1957/Home/Martyn C Webster/Carleton Hobbs- Holdhurst=Felix Felton
1978/4/Peter Novis/Barry Foster
1992 rpt 1993, rptd R7 & R4X 2008-2011/4/Patrick Rayner/Clive Merrison]
28th March 1960
20.30-21.00
Seven Shares in a Goldmine (1958) by Margaret Larkin (1899-1967), adapted by Stephen Grenfell
A plane awaits take off from Mexico City
Producer: Alan Burgess
Magallanes: Hilda Schroder
Kathy: Jill Raymond
Captain: Noel Johnson
Navigator: Rodney Stuart
Co-Pilot: John Scott
Hostess: June Tobin
Margaret: Judy Bailey
Detective: Eric Pohlmann
Emilio: Robert Rietty
Comacho: Leigh Crutchley
Miguel: George Merritt
Judge: Bernard Rebel
Narrator: Stephen Grenfell
[The author moved to Mexico City in 1951]
4th April 1968
19.30-20.00
The Doomsday Book by J MacLaren-Ross.
1 of 8.
Maxim's theme by Humphrey Searle
Produced By: R. D. Smith
Soldier: John Gabriel
Spade: Christopher Carlos
Maxim: Howard Marion-Crawford
Leo Marsh: Anthony Jacobs
C I D Inspector: Philip Grout
Eustace Pell: Douglas Storm
Dame Allegra: Nan Marriott-Watson
Also with Nicolette Bernard, Leigh Crutchley, John Dearth
Additional actors in parts 2-8:
Chief Inspector Crauford: Duncan McIntyre
Dame Allegra: Nan Marriott-Watson
George Kemp: Peter Powell
Karen: June Tobin
Kemp: Peter Powell
Maxim: J MacLaren-Ross
Maxim: Ronald Baddiley
Mr Meiklejohn: Brian O'Higgins
Passman: John Hollis
Prior: Geoffrey Wincott
Also with Pekoe Ainley.
(Three actors credited as playing Maxim]
Weekly serial, part 8 broadcast 23rd May 1960
4th April 1968:
20.30-21.00
South from Singapore by Jean Bowden (1920-2016)
The fate of Australian nurses after the fall of Singapore in 1942.
Produced By: Alan Burgess
Dorothy Gavin: Rosamund John
Lydia: Jane Barrett
Paddy: Martina Mayne
Dr Crowe: Betty Hardy
Matron: Janet Burnell
Sister Charman: Ella Milne
Group Captain Nunn: Leigh Crutchley
Tungku Sofain: Douglas Storm
Brother Cornelius: Philip Cunningham
Ibram: Norman Claridge
John: Anthony Viccars
Soldier: Nicholas Edmett
[The author also wrote a history of Queen Alexandra's nurses. She also wrote as Tessa Barclay, Barbara Annandale, Jocelyn Barry, Jennifer Bland and Avon Curry.]
5th April 1960
21.30-22.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Greek Interpreter by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Dramatised by Michael Hardwick
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Mycroft Holmes: Keith Williams
Melas: Jeffrey Segal
Harold Latimer: Brian McDermott
Kemp: James Thomason
Inspector Gregson: Michael Turner
Repeated on BBC Home 13th April 1960 and R4 on 28th April 1983.
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2021]
[Also produced by Enyd Williams in 1992 for R4, with Clive Merrison as Holmes, repeated R7 and R4X 2008-2011]
11th April 1960
20.30-21.00
One Way Out by Donald Campbell Shaw (1921-1967), from the book "Pimpernel in Prague".
Produced By: Michael Simpson
Donald Campbell Shaw: Norman Shelley
Helen: Thea Wells
Karel: George Pravda
Mary: Eva Stuart
Robin: Eric Phillips
Hynek: Denis Goacher
Jan: John Humphry
19th April 1960
21.30-22.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Cardboard Box (1893) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Dramatised by Michael Hardwick
Producer: Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Inspector Lestrade: David Bird
Susan Cushing: Janet Burnell
Jim Browner: Tom Watson
Police Constable: Hugh Manning
Mary Browner: Eva Stuart
Sarah Cushing: Cecile Chevreau
Repeated on BBC Home on 27th April 1960
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2021)
[Also produced by Patrick Rayner on R4 in 1994 rptd 1996 with Clive Merrison as Holmes, repeated R7 and R4X 2008-2011]
26th April 1960
21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: A Benefit Performance (1896) by W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943), dramatised by Lionel Brown
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Jackson Pepper: John Hollis
Mrs Pepper: Ella Milne
Captain Crippen: George Merritt
Miss Winthrop: Molly Lumley
Stationmaster: Ronald Sidney
Repeated 4th May 1960 on BBC Home
1st May 1960
16.30-17.00
Scotsmen's Gold by G K Saunders (1910-2005)
Part 1 of 10
1861, New Zealand
No details for part one. Below info from part 2:
Violin: Billy Miller
Production By: Audrey Cameron
James Pearson: Duncan McIntyre
Sam Jolly: Ronald Baddiley
The storyteller: Norman Claridge
A bandit: Bruce Stewart
Martha: Paddy Turner
Jane Pearson: Mairhi Russell
Robert Pearson: Glen Grant
Daniel Hathaway: John Humphry
George Gruff: George Merritt
Andrew Wilson: Tom Watson
Jock: Douglas Storm
Steve the Squealer: John Hollis
Also with Kenneth Dight, Nicholas Edmett and Nigel Anthony
Additional actors in parts 3-10: Bruce Wightman, Charles Simon, David Bird, Eva Stuart, Gabriel Woolf, George Hagan, John Graham, John Rye, Jon Rollason, Michael Turner, Philip Cunningham
Part 10 broadcast 8th May 1960
Note: On 8th May the broadcast was 16.45-17.15 due to a sports event.
[G K Saunders lived in New Zealand from 1939 to about 1957.]
3rd May 1960
21.30-22.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Dramatised by Michael Hardwick
Produced By: Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Jules Vibart: John Hollis
Marie Devine: Cecile Chevreau
The Hon Philip Green: John Humphry
Herr Dietrich: George Merritt
Peters: Michael Turner
Repeated on BBC Home 11th May 1960
[Also broadcast R4X 2018-2021]
[Also produced by Roger Pine for R4 in 1978 with Barry Foster as Holmes]
[Also produced by Enyd Williams in 1994, rptd 1996 for R4 with Clive Merrison as Holmes.Rptd R7/R4X 2008-2011 ]
10th May 1960
21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Taking Pains by W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) dramatised by Lionel Brown
A cure for rheumatism.
Produced By: David H. Godfrey
Mrs Key: Barbara Lott
Silvanus Key: Eric Anderson
Mr Daviot: Keith Williams
Mrs Daviot: Eva Stuart
Dr Johnson: Wilfred Babbage
Mr Punshon: Hamilton Dyce
Repeated on Home on 18th May 1960
16th May 1960
20.30-21.00
The Leper who made People Sing by Alan Burgess (1915-1998).
Nigeria.
Produced By: Alan Burgess
Harcourt White (Ikoli Harcourt Whyte 1905-1977): Earl Cameron
Adamma White: Nadia Catouse
John: David Bird
Hilda: Thea Wells
Chief of Police: Christopher Carlos
Inugu: Frank Singuineau
Resident: Charles Simon
Doctor: Douglas Storm
Boy: Nigel Anthony
Repeated on BBC Home on 13th January 1961
[Despite his disabilities Harcourt whose religious roots were Methodist, wrote over 600 hymns in Igbo. Listen to one (Bianu Ndi Eyim Nile = "Come all My friends") at youtube.com/watch?v=_D-3dtol5UI]
17th May 1960
21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Engineer's Thumb (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Dramatised by Michael Hardwick
Producer: Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Victor Hatherley: Harold Reese
Colonel Lysander Stark: Julian Somers
Elise: Stella Textor
Mr Ferguson: Geoffrey Wincott
Inspector Bradsheet: Edgar Norfolk
Also with: Janet Morrison, Ian Sadler, John Scott
Repeated on BBC Home on 25th May 1960
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2021]
[Also produced by Patrick Rayner in 1991, rptd 1992, for R4 with Clive Merrison as Holmes, rptd R7/R4X 2008-2018.]
18th May 1960
20.00-20.30
Inspector Scott Investigates by John P Wynn.
(Hans Wolfgang Priwin b.? - 1978)
Signature tune by John P. Wynn
1 The Case of the Five Pound Oranges.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
Inspector Scott: Deryck Guyler
Lesley Sylvester: Margaret Christensen
William Lumley: Douglas Blackwell
Clarence Weaver: Geoffrey Matthews
Bingham: Brian Hayes
Michael Hillfield: Will Leighton
Mrs Milton: Pat Gilbert
Angela Cruikshank: Sheila Hancock
[The Inspector Scott series ran on the radio 1957-1963. During the programme a crime was committed, Scott interviewed a few suspects, there was a short intermission while listeners were given time to work out "whodunit"]
[In 1960 the series ran for 16 weekly stories concluding 31st August 1960. This listing does not include the other episodes in 1960.]
[John P Wynn created "What do you know" which became "Brain of Britain".]
23rd May 1960
20.30-21.00
Decision at Differdange by Bob Kesten
World War 2.
Produced by Alan Burgess
Corporal Punzel: Denis Goacher
Nic Kremer: Douglas Storm
Mrs Wallers: Cecile Chevreau
Manager: David Bird
Lieutenant: John Hollis
Also with John Humphry, Nigel Anthony, John Rye, Lee Fox, Tom Duggan and Bill Horsley
[Several of the named characters were alive at the time of this broadcast which dramatises a true story- Kremer located Punzel in 1955 to thank him.]
24th May 1960
21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Manners Makyth Man by W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) dramatised by Lionel Brown
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Bill, the night-watchman: John Bryning
Ted Sawyer: Frank Partington
Mr Watson: Sidney Monckton
Policeman: Keith Williams
Florrie Price: Patricia Hayes
Old gentleman: Middleton Woods
Deaf woman: Elsa Palmer
Captain Maunder: John Hollis
Repeated on Home on 1st June 1960
[Printed in the 1911 story collection "Ship's Company"]
[The author's father managed a wharf in London]
30th May 1960
20.30-21.00
Turn About by Bob Kesten
1942. World War 2.
Producer: Alan Burgess
Flt-Lt Ted Strever (1920-1977): Rolf Lefebvre
Pilot Officer Dunsmore: Deryck Guyler
Sgt Brown: Bill Kerr
Sgt Wilkinson: Bill Horsley
Captain Mastrodrasa: Robert Rietty
Italian Engineer: Tom Duggan
31st May 1960
20.30-21.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The
Illustrious Client (1924) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Dramatised by Michael Hardwick
Producer: Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes: Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson: Norman Shelley
Sir James Damery: John Humphry
Baron Gruner: John G Heller
Shinwell Johnson: Anthony Viccarg
Kitty Winter: Eva Stuart
Newsvendor: Nicholas Edmett
Repeated on BBC Home on 8th June 1960
[Also broadcast on R4X 2018-2021]
[Also produced by Patrick Rayner for R4 in 1994 rptd 1997 with Clive Merrison as Holmes, rptd R7 2006-2010]
7th June 1960
21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Four Pigeons (1905) by W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943), dramatised by Lionel Brown
Shooting season.
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Dr Fitch: Geoffrey Lewis
Smith: Eric Anderson
Old Truthfulness: Jeffrey Segal
Henry Walker: Gabriel Woolf
Bill Chambers: Michael Turner
Keeper Cutts: Frank Partington
Mr Sutton: Hugh Manning
Peter Gubbins: Nigel Anthony
Bob Pretty: John Hollis
Walter Bell: Tom Watson
14th June 1960
21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Louise (1925) by Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) adapted by John Gouldsmith
Produced By: Norman Wright
Bill: Brewster Mason
Louise: Irene Sutcliffe
Mrs Millick: Hester Paton Brown
Tom Maitland: Frederick Treves
George Hobhouse: Richard Bebb
Iris: Judy Bailev
Russ: John Rye
Repeated on BBC Home on 21st December 1960
21st June 1960
21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Test (1906) by W W Jacobs (1863-1943) dramatised by Lionel Brown
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Storyteller: Douglas Storm
Arthur Heard: Bill Horsley
Fred Dix: Geoffrey Matthews
Mr Smith: Malcolm Hayes
Mrs Smith: Thea Holme
Emma Smith: Myrtle Reed
Joe Smith: Nicholas Edmett
28th June 1960
21.30:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Case Of Lady Talond (1946) by Norman Edwards.
Producer: David H. Godfrey
Mrs Villiers: Mary Hinton
Lizzie: Cecile Chevreau
John Rayford: David March
Judge: Arthur Ridley
Sir Edward Leithen: Carl Bernard
Also with Ronald Sidney
5th July 1960
21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Three Fat Women Of Antibes (1933) by Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), adapted by Howard Agg
Produced By: Norman Wright
Doctor: Denis Goacher
Beatrice Richman: Ella Milne
Frances Hickson: Mary O'Farrell
Arrow Sutcliffe: Tucker McGuire
Lena Finch: Joan Matheson
Waiter: John Hollis
[A recording was released of Maugham reading this work and was broadcast on BBC Home in 1964]
8th July 1960
22.00-22.30
Hawryluk's Hammer by Marian Waldman (1924-1985)
Producer James W Kent
CBC (Canada)
Frances: Miriam Wolfe
Sam: Paul Kligman
Herb, their son: Edwin Stephenson
Abbie Hawryluk: Janet Reid
Oskar: Jean Cavall
[Marian Waldman wrote a number of plays for CBC. This was broadcast in the series "Premiere on the Air" on 28th October 1958. There was an earlier CBC production by John Reeves in 1957]
10th July 1960
16:30-17.00
The Stolen Romney (1919) by Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) freely adapted by Norman Edwards
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Peter Hawes. CID: Richard Hurndall
Assistant Commissioner of Police: Austin Trevor
T T Tresser: John Hollis
Secretary: Daphne Green
Gallery Attendant: Ronald Sidney
[Story also published as "The Missing Romney" with the thief named "Plain Jane"]
12th July 1960
21.30-22.00
Puzzle for Poppy (1946) by Patrick Quentin adapted by Felix Felton
Produced By: Cedric Messina
Iris Duluth: Moira Lister
Peter Duluth: John Bennett
Miss Crump: Sylvia Coleridge
Inspector Green: Rolf Lefebvre
Also with Harold Reese
[The name Patrick Quentin was used by four writers of detective fiction. "Most of the stories were written by R W Webb and H C Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone"]
15th July 1960
22.00-22.30
Both Sides of the Law by Henry Cecil (Henry Cecil Leon, 1902-1976)
Season 2: Story 1: The Confession
Produced by Norman Wright
The Judge: Ivan Samson
The Criminal: Ronald Baddiley
Anne Cordwell: June Tobin
Alan Harker: Geoffrey Lewis
The Chaplain: Douglas Storm
Repeated 19th July 1960
[The first episode of the second -almost forgotten- series broadcast weekly for six weeks. The first series ran in 1958 and was repeated in 1961. Two series each of 6 episodes. Papers related to this series are in the Henry Cecil archive: located in Box 47, McMaster University Library, Ontario, Canada.]
17th July 1960
16.30-17.00
Faraway (1932) by J B Priestley (1894-1984) dramatised by Howard Agg.
Guitarist: Louis Gallo
Producer: Martyn C Webster
1 of 8: No data for episode 1.
Cast in part 2:
The Storyteller: Simon Lack
Madame: Cecile Chevreau
Baldwin Totten: George Merritt
Garsuvin: Rolf Lefebvre
William Dursley: Lewis Stringer
Mrs Gurney: Christine Lindsay
Dr Forester: Rex Palmer
Richard Greenlaw: Frank Partington
Additional cast in parts 3-8:
David Spenser, Duncan McIntyre, Gabriel Woolf, Hugh Dickson, James Thomason, Joan Matheson, John Hollis, June Tobin, Kathleen Heime, Keith Williams, Sylvia Coleridge, Tom Watson, Toni Weinberg, Trevor Martin
19th July 1960
21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Bed And Breakfast by Berkely Mather (John Evan Weston Davies 1909-1996) adapted by Felix Felton
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
Miss Graham: Eva Stuart
Gwen: Sheila Grant
Alice: Freda Dowie
Fred: Haydn Jones
Uncle Ernie: John Bryning
Aunt Maud: Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Peter: John Rye
Miss Poldyke: Kathleen Helme
Matthilde: Gladys Spencer
Adrienne: Cecile Chevreau
26th July 1960
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Cold Storage by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Robert Craig: Tom Watson
Lucy Craig: Judy Bailey
Alan Scott: Peter Wilde
Jim Palmer: James Thomason
Also with Ian Sadler
Repeated on BBC Home 4th January 1961
[Also produced by Margaret Etall in 1973 with Nigel Graham as Robert, repeated 1976, also R4X 2013-2023, also released on transcription disc]
2nd August 1960
21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Long Distance by Harry Junkin (1916-1978)
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Bertha Jacks: Joan Miller
Prison Warden: Michael Turner
Mrs McLean: Gwen Day Burroughs
Miss Milton: Cecile Chevreau
Mr Henderson: Guy Kingsley Poynter
Also with Errol MacKinnon , Judith Whale
[David Godfrey also produced earlier versions:
for Home in 1947 with Nicholas Stuart as the Judge
and Gerry Fitzgerald as Henderson, and again in 1952 rptd 1955 with Malcolm Hayes as Henderson]
[Also produced several times for US radio -for NBC Radio City Playhouse (1948) and later produced for other shows. Also made into TV shows.]
9th August 1960
21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Spur Of The Moment by Joan Aiken (1924-2004) adapted by Felix Felton
Producer: Norman Wright
Julia: Eva Stuart
Richard: Frederick Treves
Mr Newberry: James Thomason
Hugh: Trevor Martin
The Parrot: Gladys Spencer
The Alsatian: Wilfred Babbage
[Unrelated to the 2010 play by Anya Reiss]
16th August 1960
21.30
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Dead End by Fred McMorrow (1925-2000), adapted by Wilfrid Grantham
Produced by: William Glen-Doepel
Al: Tom Watson
Joey: Ronald Wilson
Ida: Eva Stuart
Haber: Warren Stanhope
Burton: Tommy Duggan
Little Sammy: Marvin Kane
Georgia: Myrtle Reed
Insurance Man: Jon Farrell
Waiter: William Eedle
Andy: Julian Somers
[The title has been used by many plays and films]
23rd August 1960
21.30
Ear for Detail by Philip Levene (1926-1973)
Produced by William Glen-Doepel
Mark Hunter: Kim Grant
Jill Ramsey: Diana Olsson
Mrs Collier: Gladys Spencer
Ellen: Mary O'Farrell
Sir Wilfred King: Keith Williams
Secretary: Eva Huszar
Vicar: Wilfred Babbage
Clerk: Bill Horsley
Repeated from BBC Home of 8th June 1960
30th August 1960
21.30-22.15
The Story of Ivy Bruno by Frank Baker (1908-1983)
Produced By: Charles Lefeaux
Ivy Bruno: Zoe Caldwell
Charles Muir: Tom Fleming
Roger Merritt: Nicholas Stevenson
Mrs Bruno: Mary O'Farrell
Dr Staveling: Julian Somers
The Rev Norman Muir: Earle Grey
Pawlyn: Wilfred Babbage
Jessie Harvey: Eva Stuart
Maurice Harvey: Haydn Jones
[Previous production by Barbara Burnham (with permission of Lee Ephraim) was 14th March 1943, with a head title "If you have not already done so...or...The Story of Ivy Bruno". Lee Ephraim was a Broadway producer who died in 1953. No connection between Ephraim and this play has been found.]
6th September 1960
21.30-22.15
The Passport by Lewis Grant Wallace (1910-2002)
Produced by Archie Campbell
Matthew Daly (storyteller): Ralph Hallett
Passer-by: Philip Morant
Bus conductor: Nigel Anthony
Man in the bus: Wilfrid Lawson
Edith Logan: Penelope Lee
Sergeant Logan: Gabriel Woolf
Manager of bus depot: Hugh Dickson
[Wallace found fame by living in a 2-room house just 42 inches wide (32 feet deep) - sadly lost in the Blitz.]
13th September 1960
20.30-21.00
The Widow's Mite by C B Gilford (1920-2010), dramatised by Wilfrid Grantham
Producer: Archie Campbell
Police Inspector: Derek Birch
Mrs Owen: Esma Cannon
Mrs Bennett: Ella Milne
Taxi Driver: Peter Bartlett
Mr Satterfield: Kenneth Dight
George: Bill Horsley
Ernest: Keith Buckley
Valerie Brown: Olive Kirby
Mr Lewis: Wilfred Babbage
Repeated on Home 6th January 1961, 17th August 1965, on R2 25th December 1967
[The only credit in the BBC Programme Database for C B Gilford]
[The 21.30 drama slot was in use for sport]
18th September 1960
19.05-19.35
The Singing Spider (1938) by Angus MacVicar (1908-2001)
The setting is 1937-8. There is a spy.
1 of 6. The Pit of Baal.
No cast for episode one.
Cast in episode 2:
Produced by James Crampsey
Accordionist: Syd Beecham
Sir Robert Vanburgh: David Steuart
Gordon Campbell: Bryden Murdoch
Jock Ferguson, 'The Clincher': Frank Wylie
Mrs McMurchy: Effie Morrison
Sheena MacLean: Rona Anderson
Rev James MacLean: Leonard Maguire
Professor Henry J. Knickerbocker: Raymond Westwell
Joe Drummond: Callum Mill
Mary Allen: Eileen McCallum
Patrick O'Donnel: Michael O'Halloran
Additional cast in eps 3-6:
Charles Baptiste, Gerard Slevin, Meg Buchanan, William Simpson
Part 6 broadcast 23rd October 1960
[Previously produced in 1950 by James Crampsey with Effie Morrison as Mary, Ian Sadler as Joe, Paul Curran as Patrick]
[This play has different character names to the original book- Archie has become Gordon]
20th September 1960
21.30-21.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Double Exit by Gale Pedrick (1906-1970)
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
A timely breakdown.
James: James Thomason
Jane: Hilda Schroder
George: Frank Windsor
Bond: Harold Young
Repeated from BBC Home 18th February 1969
27th September 1960: The 21.30 drama slot was in use for sport.
4th October 1960
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: We Are Not Amused by Lionel Brown
Produced by David H. Godfrey
First night.
Hall Porter: Ronald Sidney
Miss Clifford: Freda Dowie
Mark Stanley: Hugh Dickson
Freddie Spencer: Keith Buckley
Marjorie Spencer: Nerys Kerfoot
Mrs Spencer: Janet Burnell
John Spencer: Ralph Hallett
Trevor Gordon: George Merritt
Jim: Duncan McIntyre
Vivien Gordon: Monica Grey
Programme Girl: Penelope Lee
Stage Doorkeeper: Charles Simon
11th October 1960
21.00
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Second Innings by Norman Edwards
Production by Audrey Cameron
Mrs Smith: Marjorie Westbury
Mr Anson: Hamilton Dyce
Dr Maltby: David March
Mrs Lane: June Tobin
18th October 1960
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Escape from Tangier by Philip Brown, Dramatised by Wilfrid Grantham
Produced by Archie Campbell
Spanish Barman: Gareth Morgan
Harris: Jeffrey Segal
'X': Wensley Pithey
'Y': William Eedle
Two drivers: Nicholas Edmett
Repeated on BBC Home 23rd December 1960
25th October 1960- the drama slot was taken over by sport.
1st November 1960
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Back of Beyond (1931) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), dramatised by Howard Agg
British Colonists in Malaya pre WW2.
Production by Audrey Cameron
Douglas, a club member: Douglas Storm
Tom Saffary: Patrick Barr
Billiard marker: John Bryning
Second club member: Geoffrey Matthews
Third club member: Michael Turner
Violet Saffary: Mary Wimbush
Ah Ling, a servant: Geoffrey Matthews
Enid Clarke: Valerie Hanson
Knobby Clarke: Ronald Baddiley
The Resident: Norman Claridge
[Also produced by Audrey Cameron in 1954 with Googie Withers as Violet and Jack Allen as Tom.]
[originally published under the title "The Right Thing is the Kind Thing". ]
6th November 1960
19.05-19.35
The Lotus Eater (1935) by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) dramatised by Howard Agg
The island of Capri.
Produced by John Gibson
Norton: Douglas Storm
Ashenden: John Bryning
Wilson: John Slater
[Also produced by Mary Hope Allen in 1954 with Richard Williams as Norton]
8th November 1960
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Seeing a Beauty Queen Home by Bill Naughton (1910-1992)
Produced by John Gibson
Maggie's Pal: Nerys Kerfoot
Maggie: Joyce Marlow
Bill: Brian Peck
Harry: John Bryning
Ned: Haydn Jones
Gran: Marion Dawson
[Repeated on Home 30th December 1960]
13th November 1960
19.05-19.35
The One Before (1902) by Barry Pain (1864-1928), adapted by Denzil Roberts
1 of 6
Producer: Norman Wright
Ernest Barley: Clive Morton
Jane: Virginia Hewett
Maud: Freda Dowie
Mary Barley: Frances Rowe
James Havern: Hugh Dickson
Additional cast in parts 2-6:
Carvell Smythe: Gareth Morgan
Customer: Michael Turner
Ermyntrude: Nerys Kerfoot
Ezra Carcow: Cyril Shaps
George Mason: James Thomason
Hilda Derriford: Penelope Lee
Inspector: Keith Williams
Johnson: Frederick Treves
Mr Borkin: Kenneth Dlght
Mr Hickes: David Bird
Mrs Derriford: Hester Paton Brown
Nathan Rosenstein: Trevor Martin
Nathaniel Brookes: Lionel Gamlin
Rebecca Carcow: Nan Marriott-Watson
Part 6 broadcast 18th December 1960.
[The title has been used for several works by others]
15th November 1960
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Window by J. E. A. Seager, adapted by Edward Livesey
Music by the Radiophonic Workshop
Production by Hugh Stewart
Robin Iron: Valentine Dyall
Felix Grahame: Norman Shelley
A Doctor: Leslie Twelvetrees
A Sister: Hilda Burch
First Nurse: Mary Chester
Second Nurse: Eileen Barry
Third Nurse: Marjorie Field
[Repeated on Home on 17th November 1960]
[Also produced in 1944 for Home by Edward Livesey with Marius Goring as Robert Iron]
22nd November 1960: Drama slot yet again replaced with sport.
29th November 1960
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Personal Call by Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Mrs Lamb: Vivienne Chatterton
James Brent: Ivan Brandt
Fay Beat: Rice Bevan
Pamela Brent: Barbara Lott
Evan: Michael Turner
Mary: Eva Stuart
Mr Enderby: James Thomason
Inspector Narracott: George Hagan
Repeated on Home: 11th January 1961, 1st January 1963
[First produced by Ayton Whitaker in 1954 rptd 1955, with Joan Sanderson as Mrs Lamb]
[One of the five plays that Agatha Christie wrote especially for radio production]
[Inspector Narracott is also in the 1931 book "The Sittaford Mystery" by Christie]
6th December 1960- even more sport to replace the drama slot.....
13th December 1960:
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Tuan Tiger by Leslie Tedder
A colonial rubber estate in Malaya.
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Alan Trebbold: Brewster Mason
Jill Trebbold: Eva Stuart
Abdul: Tom Watson
Fatimah: Joseflna Ray
Snessor: Ronald Baddiley
Othman: Malcolm Hayes
Superintendent Jimmy Wayburn: Michael Turner
20th December 1960:
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Uncle Murderer by Selwyn Jepson (1899-1989)
Produced by Cedric Messina
Robert Tacton-Farley, J.P: Wensley Pithey
Ursula Parkin: Freda Dowie
Dr Harris: Rolf Lefebvre
27th December 1968
21.00:
Thirty-Minute Theatre: Risk (1942) by Margery Sharp (1905-1991) adapted George Archbold
Produced by William Glen-Doepel
Doctor: Philip Cunningham
Policeman: Norman Mitchell
Baird: Philip Leaver
Cotterill: David Peel
Francois: Geoffrey Matthews
Mary: Clare Austin
Antoine: Keith Buckley
Valet de chambre: Lee Fox
Hotel manager: Kenneth Dight
Gendarme: Peter Zander
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Compiled by Stephen Shaw March 2025
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(....thanks again, Stephen ...-ND)
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